Reda

Reda (62 BC-) was an Egyptian nomadic merchant and child prodigy who made rounds throughout Lower Egypt and Cyrenaica with his camel, selling goods such as weaponry forged in Nubian mines, Persian jewels, and Assyrian treasures.

Biography
Reda was born in Ptolemaic Egypt in 62 BC, and he was orphaned at a young age; he said that his father was poisoned by his mother, who was later killed by a wild hippopotamus, and he also claimed that his parents were boiled in a bronze bull by a phylakitai after being caught stealing. He travelled throughout Egypt with his camel Amun, selling rare and legendary weapons and carbon crystals which he had plucked from the ancient desert lands and the sunken vessels of the Nile. In 48 BC, he came across the medjay Bayek in Sais, offering to sell his goods to the Medjay if he needed them, and Bayek was impressed that a boy as young as Reda would be travelling far and wide and selling such expensive goods. By 38 BC, he had extended his travels to the Sinai and Upper Egypt.